Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the company is "very close to shipping a test" of a "dislike" button for the social networking service, saying that the idea will be to allow users to "express empathy" about a sad event with friends.
Verizon Wireless says it plans to start field testing its upcoming 5G network in the US sometime in 2016. The technology is supposed to have up to 50 times the throughput of the carrier's current 4G LTE network
Verizon is about ready to show off a revamped company logo. The new look is reportedly being shown internally but the company plans to officially introduce the logo later this week
Sprint has expanded its delivery and set up service, Direct 2 You, to several new cities in the US, including Minneapolis/St. Paul, Orlando, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio and Seattle.
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said in an interview that the wireless carrier will no longer offer two-year contracts for its smartphones by the end of 2015, and will instead use the phone leasing business model that's already in place at T-Mobile and Verizon.
UK-based retailer Carphone Warehouse has admitted that hackers have gained access to the personal records of up to 2.4 million of its customers, along with encrypted credit card data of 90,000 customers.
Verizon Wireless will launch a revamp of its monthly device data plans beginning on August 13. It will also do away with smartphone contracts and subsidies in favor of monthly installment plans.
The Federal Communications Commission has revealed T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $17.5 million fine in order to settle an investigation into two separate nationwide 911 outages on the wireless carrier in 2014.
A new President of Global Sales has joined the BlackBerry team. The company has announced it has named Carl Wiese to be its new President, Global Sales. He previously worked at Cisco, where he worked for more than 10 years, and rose to the rank of Senior Vice President. Wiese will succeed John Sims, who has now departed the company. The full press release naming Wiese as BlackBerry's...
Amazon's latest giveaway in the Amazon Appstore includes over $40 of paid content for free now through July 1. Titles in this promotion include The Bard's Tale, Exiles Weather Live and many more. Here's the full list of apps in this latest offer: Alarm Clock Pro Deep Under The Sea tinyCam Monitor PRO for IP Cam Exiles Fantastic 4 In a Row 2 Weather Live Endless Skater Air Receiver...
The expansion of markets for the BlackBerry Leap continues with the announcement that the smartphone is now on sale in Italy. It will be available from a number of carriers and retail partners in that country for the price of €299, which includes the VAT fee. There's no word on the specific retailers and carriers that will sell the Leap in Italy, but we would imagine it won't be too...
T-Mobile US could be trying once again to merge with another large company. A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that talks have begun with the satellite TV company Dish Network. The story's sources claim that if a merger is approved, Dish Network's CEO Charlie Ergen would be the chairman of the combined company, with T-Mobile CEO John Legere getting the same title for the...
Amazon frequently has big sales on Flash storage cards and today the retailer has cut back the prices on Kingston microSD cards by as much as 84 percent. The sale gives big price cuts on cards that range from 4GB to 128GB, so if you need some extra storage for your microSD-supported smartphone, you might want to check these out. All of the cards come with SD card adapters for those...
Verizon Wireless and Sprint will pay a combined total of $158 million to settle billing complaint charges filed by the Federal Communications Commission. Under the terms of the settlement, Verizon will pay $90 million, while Sprint will have to spend $68 million, for a total of $158 million. At least $120 million of the total amount will go to reimbursing consumers hit with the charges...
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written an editorial about the company's decision to start selling the BlackBerry Classic on May 13 via T-Mobile again, saying that the move was "an important step that does the right thing for both of our customers and shareholders." In April 2014, BlackBerry announced it would not renew its smartphone sales agreement with T-Mobile, in part because of a...
A European Union court has ruled that the name of Microsoft's Skype VoIP service cannot claim a trademark in the EU. The court ruled that the name was too similar to the Sky broadcast network. Sky first filed a trademark dispute with Skype before it was acquired by Microsoft in 2011. Today, according to the BBC, the EU court ruled in favor of Sky: "Judges at the General Court of...
Blackberry's security software subsidiary Certicom has launched what they are calling a "new managed public key infrastructure certificate service" designed specifically for "Internet of Things" connected devices for business and enterprise customers. BlackBerry says: This cost-effective service will help device manufacturers and service providers secure their IoT networks and...
Twitter has announced some changes in its policies, along with some revised enforcement options, designed to combat the abusive users of its social network. The changes include expanding the definitions of Twitter's violent threats policy, along with more options for the company's service team to lock out accounts. Twitter's violent threats policy now include "threats of violence...
The BlackBerry Advertising Service, which offered developers a way to integrate ads in BlackBerry 10 applications, will be shutting down on June 16, or two months from today. The company launched the service in September 2010. In a blog post today, BlackBerry said it was ending its ad service as part of its overall efforts to "realign our focus and activities to support enterprise...
T-Mobile has launched a revamped version of its coverage map that is based on what it calls "real-time customer experience" to offer a more accurate look at its footprint in the US. T-Mobile says the map on its website is based on "200 million actual customer usage data points every day" rather than just best estimates of its coverage. It also uses third-party customer data from...